CONSUMER
SURVEYS PRIVACY NOTICE
As
a research company, we know you value the privacy of your personal information.
Your survey responses drive important research about consumer preferences.
This
privacy notice (Notice) describes what personal information we collect and
how we share it. By completing our survey, you agree with our personal
information privacy practices described in this Notice.
We do not use your name and address or any information you provide to us to sell to you or to contact you for the
purpose of marketing or selling to you. We never provide this information to
telemarketers and we do not allow anyone we do business
with to use this information for the purpose of direct marketing or selling to
you. The information we collect from you
is used for research purposes.
1.
Why We Collect Information. Your survey responses drive
important research about consumer preferences. We collect this information to
help our clients conduct research and make decisions about product development,
marketing, and business strategy. We may
also use this information to improve our surveys and to communicate with you
about our surveys such as to send you rewards for participating or
opportunities for future research.
2.
How We Collect Information. We collect the categories of personal
information described below directly from your survey answers. We may
supplement this information with information provided by third parties, such as
characteristics of your neighborhood and other consumer profile information.
3. Information We Collect. You
provide personal information about yourself and members of your household when
you complete our surveys. This information is used for
research purposes. The categories of this personal information may include:
personal identifiers, such as names, postal and email addresses, and phone
numbers; commercial information, including your purchase history and buying
preferences; personal characteristics, such as your age, gender, race, and
ethnicity; inferences about you drawn from information concerning your
preferences and attitudes; and electronic information, such as your online
survey access, registration, and session history, if you complete a survey
online.
4. When We Share Information with Others. We
share the above categories of personal information with our affiliates and
third parties as follows: with our service providers, who access or collect
this information on our behalf solely to provide us with contracted services
and support our business, including for the purposes described in Section 1; with our clients, who use your survey answers to
understand consumer preferences and conduct research; with third parties when
appropriate to respond to lawful requests, legal process, claims, and/or
actions, and to enforce our agreements and policies; and in connection with a
merger or sale of our business, in whole or in part.
5. Your Privacy Rights. You have
the following privacy rights with regards to the information
you provide when you complete or have completed a survey:
Note: your
personal information is used for research purposes. We never use the
information you provide to us to contact you for the purposes of sales or
marketing whether or not you exercise the rights
below.
·
Right to Opt-Out: You can
request that we do not sell your personal information, even for research
purposes.
·
Right to Delete: You can request that we delete
your personal information.
·
Right to Know: You
can request to know the list of specific pieces of personal information we have
collected about you, and/or what categories of your personal information we
have collected, from whom, with what purpose, and who do we share it with, or
disclose or sell it to.
If
you have participated in our research and would like to exercise your privacy
rights, you may call our toll-free number (1-800-442-0925),
or submit your request by email at privacy.ms@mrisimmons.com. When you contact us please identify which of
the above rights (right to opt-out, right to delete and/or right to know) you
want to exercise. You may also exercise your request to opt-out by using the
Do Not Sell link at www.mrisimmons.com/privacy.
You have the right to be free from discrimination when you exercise your privacy
rights.
To verify that the request is really coming from you, we may
ask you for additional information that we will use to verify your
identity. You may designate an
authorized agent to make the request for you. Authorization must be done in writing
and signed, and the writing must identify the agent and explain what request
they are authorized to make. Your authorized agent must include a copy of this
writing with the request.
6. Information Collected About Children. We believe
that kids and teenagers maintain important consumer opinions. That is why we
invite parents or guardians to have their children complete our Kids Survey or
our Teen Survey. We require the authorization of a parent or guardian before we
can collect, retain, or sell the personal
information of anyone under 16 years old.
Parents or guardians may opt-out of our retention or sale of their
kids personal information using any of the methods described above.
Updated: March 11,,
2020